MIDDLE EAST: IRIN-ME Weekly round-up 117 for 9-15 March 2007
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DUBAI, 15 March (IRIN) - CONTENTS: EGYPT: New laws to prevent bird flu spread
IRAQ: Child malnutrition – correction
IRAQ:
Elderly most vulnerable to insecurity
IRAQ: Kurdish women struggle to advance
IRAQ: Children's education gravely affected by conflict
IRAQ: Fu'ad Ahmed, Iraq, "I have no job, no food, no home and
no respect"
JORDAN: Honour killings still tolerated
LEBANON: Water supply is priority issue for the south
YEMEN: Thousands displaced by rebel fighting EGYPT: New laws to prevent bird flu spread The Egyptian government is working on new legislation that will restrict the movement of live poultry as the country reported its 24th case of avian flu. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70668 IRAQ: Child malnutrition - correction IRIN wrongly attributed an estimate of 4.5 million undernourished Iraqi children to UNICEF in a recent
report. IRIN regrets the error. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70645 IRAQ: Elderly most vulnerable to insecurity Elderly people in Iraq are finding it increasingly difficult to
cope with daily life as the country's security conditions worsen, say specialists. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70649 IRAQ: Kurdish women struggle to advance Women in Iraq's
Kurdistan are using the relative calm in their region to make slow progress towards equal status with men – but there is still a long way to go, according to activists http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70603 IRAQ: Children's education gravely affected by conflict Eight-year-old Ahlaam al-Hasnawi and her three brothers, aged between seven and 13,
should be at school but their widowed mother recently demanded they stay at home for fear that they might be killed on the streets of Baghdad or in school. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70697 IRAQ: Fu'ad Ahmed, Iraq, "I have no job, no food, no home and no respect" Fu'ad Ahmed is a 47-year-old Palestinian father of two who has been
living in Iraq for the past 18 years. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70682 JORDAN: Honour killings still tolerated Jordanian law continues to be lenient on those who kill their
female relatives in the name of protecting family honour. Last year, between 15 and 20 women were stabbed, beaten or strangled to death by family members, sometimes women themselves. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70634 LEBANON: Water supply is priority issue for the south Water supply to hundreds of thousands of people across southern Lebanon remains the
priority development issue, say officials, seven months after Israel's bombardment of the area severely damaged an already inadequate water and sanitation system. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70642 YEMEN: Thousands displaced by rebel fighting Thousands of residents of the northern province of Saada have been displaced from their homes
following clashes between government troops and followers of the deceased Shia leader Hussein Badr Eddin al-Houthi. http://newsite.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70670
